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Will Work for Equity - Investing in Clients - Arizona Bay

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Join our community. Why Arizona Bay started taking stock from its customers instead of cash. Last spring, Dave Graham , founder of software consulting firm Arizona Bay, learned that a major client, Jumpstart Automotive Media, had been acquired for more than $80 million. But that hasnt deterred outfits like Arizona Bay.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

At the launch of the company, the core email community (people with a lot of technical understanding) was our target audience. It was late 2006 and I was serving old media as a national editor at an entertainment industry trade publication, plus freelancing for an alt-weekly and writing a book. 1- Based on our target audience.

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Helping Entrepreneurs Get To Where They Want To Go Faster

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16:24] What type of networking have you found the community responds to? [18:16] After a couple of years, I then started a second business in the digital media space. We've been this blend of community and a technology platform and we'd often get bucketed very much into one or the other. It was in the retail space.

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10 Easy Ways To Create A Healthy Workplace

YoungUpstarts

Consider creating a community garden (if you have the real estate available). Studies show that people are more likely to eat more healthy foods if they have a hand in growing their food as a community, even more so than if they grow it on their own! Create healthy “nudges” to take the stairs. . Stay home when you are sick.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

By day he works on web and social media for HP. In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona.

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Home-Based Businesses – A Look Back In Time To 1985 And Beyond

YoungUpstarts

Like out of my local community and even to another state. That’s when I found my first client virtually, a publisher in Arizona. There weren’t groups you could ask or experts sharing their tips on social media, podcasts, etc. There are still some around, but social media pretty much replaced them. Social media.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Tom La Vecchia, X Factor Media ! #2 He also didn’t believe in supporting the community and supporting local organizations through our skills. More importantly, we continue to help the community through pro-bono projects, supporting non-profits and charitable campaigns, and giving back where and when we can.